Record ID: DENO-A24823
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Published
Lead looped Palstave (Narrow-Bodied, Side-flanged Type Class 2 Group 1) with a narrow blade and trident decoration. It has a narrow body, straight sides and flat side flanges which extend from the butt to the blade edge. A matte white skin of corrosion covers the lead surface except on one side where five scratches reveal it as grey and shiny. Generally the palstave appears unused with most angles and edges intact. However one blade tip and one corner of the butt are damaged. There is also an indentation in the centre of the septum on one side. Max length: 173; width cutting edge…
Created on: Thursday 17th June 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 12th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brassington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT368
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
lead single looped palstave, loop broken, plough damage to side of blade, crude style
Created on: Tuesday 18th August 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENT CANTERBURY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-81C2E4
Object type: WEDGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead axe-shaped wedge, possibly a miniature votive axe of uncertain date, possibly Bronze Age to Roman The axe-shaped object has been hammer-shaped and is complete (with a length of 28.7mm and weight of 8.1g). The butt is thickened and of rectangular section (8.4mm wide and 5.2mm thick). The sides are straight and divergent before flaring to the expanded blade edge (with a blade width of 16.6mm and a thickness of 0.8mm). The faces are somewhat irregular but generally flat and gradually convergent from the butt to the blade. There is no applied decoration to the object. The w…
Created on: Monday 1st February 2021
Last updated: Monday 1st February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-4CD9B0
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of mouth of a Late Bronze Age socketed axe. Extant length 17.5mm. Weight 3.72g. c.1000 - c.700 BC.
Created on: Thursday 15th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fincham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-1BA516
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Carmarthenshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age socketed axe of South Wales (Stogursey) Type and of Ewart Park Metalworking Industry of Needham's (1997) Period 7, dated to c. 950 - 750BC The socketed axe is complete (with a length of 100.6mm and a weight of 277.1g). The top of the mouth is flat (with external dimensions of 54.5mm x 41.7mm and internal dimensions of 33.6mm x 27.8mm) and the remnants of the four casting stubs are evident, positioned near the inner edge of the mouth. The socket is sub-rectangular and appears to retain some sediment (at a depth of 66mm). Beneath the mouth the collar is short (7mm - 8mm…
Created on: Wednesday 31st January 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-413577
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, lead. The fragment is part of the foot and catchplate. At the top the object is broken just below the bow. There is a flat rectangular plate with the remains of an incomplete catchplate on the reverse. There are two moulded transverse collars below, the uppper of which is thicker than the lower. Below the collars is an incomplete animals head. There are two large eyes represented by two moulded pellets. The forehead is D-shaped in cross-section and the snout is missing.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Edlington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-415104
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch fragment, lead, probably the foot terminal from a florid brooch. The object is in the form of a human face and is roughly D-shaped in cross-section. The upper surface is decorated in relief with a prominant forehead and deep set moulded eyes in the form of two large moulded pellets. The nose is large, triangular and flanked by two chubby-looking curved cheeks. There is a deeply incised elongated triangular channel at the bottom of either cheek, which emphasises them against the rest of the face. The mouth is relatively small and represented by two ver…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Edlington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-453D06
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead or lead-alloy pin head of probable middle early-medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date. A very similar artefact was recorded from Hertfordshire (see PAS record no. BH-2F6144). The suggested identification is based on comparisons with similar and more complete examples (see, for example, S. West; 1998; fig. 3). The cast pin head is polyhedral. The front face has four sub-oval flattened areas, the back and underside are plain and slightly convex. The now-missing shaft would presumably have been soldered on to the underside of the head. The object measures 8.7mm wide, 8…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Battlesden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-078DA3
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A short, bi-conical perforated lead weight, with a flat top and base. The hole which runs through the centre of the weight has a circular section. These weighs are not yet completely understood. It is possible they could have been spindle whorls dating from the medieval period or later, but due to a lack of excavated examples and lack of context this weight must remain undated. The weight is decorated with a prominent central rib and raised triangles; there are pellets in alternate fields in one hemisphere and pellts in every field in the other hemisphere. The weight is complete. The …
Created on: Wednesday 1st August 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 16th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Patching', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-109141
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon lead disc brooch of Weetch's type 5, with single transverse pin lug and catchplate on reverse. Six concentric circles of pellets surround a central motif. Diameter 39mm. Thickness c.1.5mm. Weighing 20.68g. A.B.Marsden's (8/5/07) comments: The brooch's design can be described as broadly nummular rather then explicitly so. There is no legend. Indeed, most of the decorated face of the brooch is taken up with the raised circular borders surrounding the central device; these are of alternating form, four being plain circles, the other three being constructed of pellets. The c…
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Acre', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-2746A7
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three lead counters or weights, undecorated and plano-convex. One is hollow backed and the other two hae central dimples. The weights measure: 15.5mm diam x 9.4mm. 9.47g. 15.8mm diam x 9.6mm. 12.05g. 14.7mm diam x 8.3mm. 8.99g.
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-780B11
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flat lead disc with a raised decoration on one surface. The decoration comprises a broken network of concentric circles. The reverse is damaged however there are no signs of any attachment points.
Created on: Monday 24th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-7D8F62
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead gaming counter. The counter is plano-convex and has three moulded knops on the top.
Created on: Monday 24th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-CB2640
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
21 lead weights or gaming pieces. One weight is flat, circular and decorated with a raised cross on one side. The other pieces are plano-convex, or hollow-convex. Two weights are decorated with three pellets on the apex.
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 21st September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stapleford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-5FCC17
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast lead weight with decorated and gilt copper alloy fragment embedded in the lead. The object comprises a sub-rectangular lead base, sub-rectangular in section. The face has a piece of carved and gilded copper alloy embedded in it; this piece appears to have been both shaped and cut, though the egdes are largely enveloped by the lead. The decoration comprises asymmetric scrollwork; it does not appear to be zoomorphic in nature but rather non-figurative, intricate pointed knots. These have been carved, leaving raised lines, with the whole of the copper alloy face being gilt. A light …
Created on: Monday 29th October 2007
Last updated: Saturday 26th October 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-B40A88
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A lead alloy early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch which is broken with two large fragments surviving and other parts missing. The brooch has a rectangular head with a raised central panel. Moulded terminals project upwards and to the sides. These consist of a central zoomorphic lobe with moulded eyes and a projecting snout with a projecting scroll on each side. The scrolls are open work and may be exaggerated nostrils or whiskers. They are tapered. Only the left hand terminal is complete. The lower edge of the head of the brooch is torn and missing, and the other surviving piece is the …
Created on: Friday 2nd November 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Riding', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-52F372
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible cast lead weight or gaming counter. The object is circular in plan with a flat, smooth base and solid, domed face. The item could potentially be Early Medieval, but it is more likely late Post-Medieval.
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-156313
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead or lead alloy disc, in the form of an early medieval button brooch. The object has no rim, and two ill-formed projections on the back correspond to a pin-lug and catch-plate. Possibly a model used in the production of a mould for a copper alloy button brooch.
Created on: Thursday 13th December 2007
Last updated: Friday 13th December 2019
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-1010E5
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead spindle whorl. Cast plano-convex whorl with central moulded aperture of diameter 9mm, Walton Rogers form A1. Patinated overall. The form may imitate that of, or even be cast directly from, a cattle femur caput whorl, a type especially favoured at 10th-century Coppergate, York. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 900-1000. Diameter: 27.1mm, Thickness: 11.6mm, Weight: 41.89gms.
Created on: Friday 19th April 2013
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bigby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-69A740
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon lead nummular brooch, circular with pelleted decoration in relief on face, damaged outer edge surviving best as a projection where the squashed catch-plate survives on the reverse. Diameter >36mm. The brooch is broadly nummular in type but does not exactly correlate to a particular reverse type. The nearest parallels for the arrangement of pellets and annulets are perhaps the Jewel cross types of Cnut and his successors but these lack the ornate decoration around the border of the brooch. There are no parallels for this decoration of chevrons, pellets and curved lines on th…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Last updated: Monday 22nd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swaffam', grid reference and parish protected.